Friday, January 16, 2015

A Dancer in the Infinite Synopsis SPOILER ALERT!!!

This is the official synopsis for my newest novel (currently seeking representation and publication):

A
Dancer in the Infinite/Diana Hignutt

(about
75,000 words)

Synopsis

The book fictionally explores cutting edge quantum
theories through conversations and scenes, unfolding ideas including the Many
Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, and ties the Simulation Hypothesis to historical
European Cathar Gnosticism. The story
also delves into the controversial theory of Morphic Resonance, and the very
nature of reality itself.

It is the story of Marie Brabant, an American woman
in her forties, who runs away from her old life, escaping from an abusive
relationship with her husband, Roger. Marie seeks refuge in a cheap hotel in
southern New Jersey to plan her next move and discovers an opportunity to work
in a bucolic retreat in the South of France.Selling her few possessions, Marie buys a plane ticket and begins an
adventurous journey to the Montagne Noire in Languedoc.

Marie arrives in the tiny mountain village
of Labastide Esparbairenque and the Chateau de Pays m des Merveilles, (Castle Wonderland),
where a small group of quantum physicists are working on a secret project.The scientists have built a device called the
Many Worlds Quantum Interface (MWQI) which allows them to converse with other
versions of themselves throughout the Multiverse.

Marie is the key to their further plans.Due to a genetic mutation Marie is the
perfect candidate to travel to other universes.The scientists, led by the British Dr. Rian Jenkins, had anticipated
Marie’s arrival because their colleagues in other universes have been
successfully using their own versions of Marie for hyper-dimensional travel.They advise Marie that they are attempting to
find a way to thwart an inter-dimensional invasion of the protozoa Toxoplasma
Gondii, or Toxies for short, a brain parasite that is infecting and subverting
the will of warm-blooded creatures throughout the Multiverse.They appeal for Marie’s help to stop the
Toxies’ all but inevitable hyper-dimensional conquest.

Marie agrees to help the scientists and is
flung off to other dimensions, other times, other realities in a search of an
answer to stop the Toxies.She visits
other versions of her own world, to discover that other Castle Wonderlands, scientists,
and Maries are being killed by an enemy she could not expect.

(okay, in fairness and full disclosure, the actual official synopsis contains the plot resolution that I will not post anytime soon)